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Despite the fact that most Nigerians are angry about the
fact that senate members of the 9th Assembly are to use about N5.5
billion to purchase vehicles, the leader of the Senate, Yahaya
Abdullahi, sees nothing wrong in it.
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According to
Leadership Newspaper, the Senator said people are just being mischievous
adding that there is no way you can give people responsibilities in the
National Assembly and then you expect them to come and work with their
cars.
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“Ministers are given official cars, not just one car.
In some cases, the ministers that never run for any election get three
to four cars. There are directors who have more than three or four jeeps
at their disposal. .
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I was a Perm Sec, so I know what obtains
in government. So for someone to come out and say, a Senator of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria should not be given an ordinary Jeep is
wrong.
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I think that is an insult. People do not really
appreciate the role Senators play in the national polity. This issue of
cars is mischievous or complete lack of appreciation of the work that
senators do. .
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Several of these senators are the ones ensuring
that they provide water for their communities because the local
governments in most states are no longer functioning,” he said.
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According
to Abdullahi, a lot of the local government have collapsed, adding that
it is through constituency projects that some communities see water to
drink and roads to use.
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“It is an insult to say that a
senator of the Federal Republic cannot ride a jeep in Nigeria. It is an
insult. I know what ministers get; we cannot even compare ourselves to
ministers because we are higher than the minister(s). .
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For you
to say that a senator of the Federal Republic cannot drive a jeep today —
come on, that is an insult. Go and tell the people that the work that
we do is more than the work of ministers,” he added.
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